Gymnopis Peters, 1874
Gymnopis Peters, 1874, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874: 616. Type species: Gymnopis multiplicata Peters, 1874, by monotypy.
Cryptopsophis Boulenger, 1883, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 12: 166. Type species: Cryptopsophis multiplicatus Boulenger, 1883, by monotypy. Synonymy by Parker, 1936, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Ser. 2, 19: 444-446; Dunn, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 439-540; Savage and Wake, 1972, Copeia, 1972: 680-695.
Gymnophis — Barbour, 1924, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 37: 125. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Copeotyphlinus Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 597. Type species: Siphonops syntremus Cope, 1866, by original designation. Synonymy by Nussbaum, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 921-928.
Minascaecilia Wake and Campbell, 1983, Copeia, 1983: 858. Type species: Minascaecilia sartoria Wake and Campbell, 1983, by original designation. Synonymy by Nussbaum, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 921-928.
English Names
Wet Forest Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).
Distribution
Guatemala to Panama.
Comment
Savage and Wake, 1972, Copeia, 1972: 680-695, revised this genus and considered its distribution. Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 49, 64-65, diagnosed the taxon and suggested that Dermophis and Gymnopis are closest relatives on the basis of morphological and reproductive similarity, but that the monophyly of either taxon remains undocumented. See comment under Dermophis.
Contained taxa
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